So, I do enjoy writing my Wednesday noon satire shorts, but damn it is difficult when shit likes this is the reality:
Straight from Kamala’s book. I mean, how can I, a simple monger of filth, compete with this?
Also, you daffy dumb bitch, you should have stayed in California sucking dicks for patronage jobs. Her turning down the California governorship and recent press stuff lays pretty even odds that she is going to run again. I might literally split making fun of her in 2028. And I don’t mean “side-splitting” as in laughing, split like there will be two SugarFrees–each smaller, yes, but then I can share the burden of mocking her on a stable arrangement of four legs, like a squat, disgust-generating credenza.
This hippie-dippy shit is going to get people killed. STEVE SMITH has no wisdom, just hunger.
Then leave, cunt.
‘Star Wars’ star Mark Hamill says he’s ashamed that America voted for Trump twice
“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill said Monday he was “really ashamed” that Americans elected President Donald Trump to a second term, adding the new administration is “on us.”
“It’s one thing for him to have sneaked by the first time — when he got re-elected, that’s on us,” Hamill said on the “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast. “That’s [what] I’m really ashamed of — because I always thought there are more decent Americans, honest Americans than there are others.”
Hamill said he was proven wrong in believing there were more decent and honest Americans than there were “others” after Trump’s second win, adding he now feels “in the minority” in his own country.
As noted by The Wrap, this was not the first time Hamill expressed frustration over Trump’s second election victory and what it reflected about the nation.
Also, three times. They voted for Trump three times. And your sort of smug dipshittery is in part why, Hamill.
If only Harris had more time to get her message out.
But not enough time to actually run in primaries!
“Blowjobs for everyone!”
Run with Swalwell for VP: “A honey in every pot!”
Amazing, Hamill never knew that pretentious Hollywood progressive twats were “in the minority”. Get out of your bubble, boy.
We should have known he was a bit of an idiot when he did Corvette Summer, frankly.
But as per my standard — that people who get paid to mouth words written by other people and think they have special wisdom is a mystery of our species.
You mean Robert DiNiro isn’t some wise sage but is, in fact, obviously empty-headed?
Fantastic song on perhaps my second favorite record. (OK Computer wins. Fave band bias. *swoons as have readership vomits*)
Isaac Brock: Also a British officer who died in the 1812 War. Won a siege against Detroit, so couldn’t have been *all* bad.
Robert DiNiro isn’t some wise sage
It used to be he was selective about his movie roles, and then he went full Nic Cage.
People are more impressed by fame than they are by actual achievement, especially with social media. It’s like we’re all teenagers again.
In that article he seems to be blaming his wife for not letting him flee to the paradise that is England.
What a class act.
I don’t know who she is but now I’m mad at her.
Dude’s son had a kid with a stripper and they pushed her to have an abortion and now refuse to acknowledge said kid. He’s loathsome in all kind of ways beyond just his pathetically self-righteous belief in his own moral superiority because of his political beliefs (which he holds in the safest echo chamber in the country).
And he’s an alcoholic.
White tricknology keeping yet another black woman down.
I seem to have a one track mind today.
3rd times the charm, eat shit commies!
Cheers!
I think it was TOK from dedthread who said maybe goes back to “words are violence”
https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/1965866457587491245
This guy agrees. Didnt I just say this morning we seem to be at a breaking point?
Honestly, if it is a loony political leftist — I’ve been surprised this hasn’t happened more often ever since “punch a fascist — oh and anyone who disagrees with me is a fascist!” was in vogue.
Very small step from “beat them up” to “kill them” after all.
But the 24 hour rule should doubtless apply. Just hope Mr. Kirk pulls through okay.
Not looking good…
“It’s OK to punch a Nazi” is another one.
“If you would just stop believing, and even worse saying, things that we disagree with, we wouldn’t have to kill you.”
Anyone still wonder how the bloody Soviet revolution or the Killing Fields could have happened? Next time someone makes fun of the soy boys and how do they plan on defeating virile red-blooded Americans, remember – The commies do not hesitate to descend into the worst violence, normal decent people do.
Of course, 24 hour rule and all, maybe just a run of the mill whack-a-doodle.
From the same people who go on about “microaggressions”….
1968 version 2 isn’t going to end the same way as the first go around. The left bled out all the civic cohesion that kept the country from splitting in the 60s and 70s.
Particularly, there are a bunch of hard right disaffected young guys who despise the left and don’t really much care for the “rules of civility” and all that stuff. Retribution isn’t above some of those kids.
Hopefully cooler heads prevail and hopefully Charlie pulls through, but it’s quite the tinderbox right now.
Its a good thing we dont have a president that can lower the temperature
Frankly, after 3 high profile assassination attempts against the right in just over a year, maybe the heat needs turned up on some people.
The heat needs turned up.
And the power needs turned off in some states.
We’ll see.
Pulling the trigger on someone who isn’t a direct immediate threat to you is really hard. Getting someone to do it consistently requires either cult-level indoctrination over a period of years, or a serious personality disorder.
It’s no surprise that most political violence comes from the left then…
Her turning down the California governorship and recent press stuff lays pretty even odds that she is going to run again.
What I read sounded like a giant “fuck you” to Joe and to the party. She’s probably to fucking dumb to understand it might not be going so well for her next time.
“But usually when I say ‘Fuck You’ they take me at my word and then give me a better job when we’re done!”
Where can I acquire one of these disgust-generating credenzas? I need one before Christmas.
I’ll DM you.
The Knott Seal of Approval for your music choice.
Yes, great music from a great period.
“That’s [what] I’m really ashamed of — because I always thought there are more decent Americans, honest Americans than there are others.”
“Hey, this ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring me here?”
Her turning down the California governorship and recent press stuff lays pretty even odds that she is going to run again.
She can run for President again, but I expect she will not get the nomination. The Democrat’s actual power brokers know she is a loser.
Running through a billion plus poorly should be a deal breaker for the Party apparatchiks and the money men, yeah.
She might crack 5% in the primaries this time though.
They will have to run a female at least as dark-skinned as Harris. I’m thinking Abrams or Crockett…
That would absolutely be hilarious.
I expect a dark skinned female to run.
Getting such a person past the nomination? If the power brokers think she is a loser, she won’t get past the nomination. Abrams is a loser and so won’t get past the nomination. Crockett? Maybe, but I’m going with another loser and so won’t get past the nomination.
Crockett would have to drop the ghetto routine and if she does she is just blah
Hillary with a spray tan?
So was Biden.
She’ll just need a little “assistance” just like Biden got.
The economy sucked thanks to the Rona Panic. Voters respond to economic pain and vote against who is in power.
Biden can reach white blue collar folks unlike Kamala.
I suspect cheating was no where near as big of a reason for Biden’s win as certain folks think.
The “Russian laptop” hoax was supposedly enough all on its own to get Joe the win.
Welp not the old man who shot him…manhunt underway.
I am sure this was staged cause of the Epstien birthday book
Oh, if you want jackass responses to the shooting… “His supporters were just firing their guns off randomly probably… hur hur hur…” “He’s polarizing!” (aka he deserves it for wrongthink) “OMB will use this to pounce!”
“Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X were polarizing, too. Did they deserve to be murdered?”
“THAT’S DIFFERENT!!!1!”
It takes two to be polarized.
It also takes two to make a thing go right.
If Harris runs again in 2028 and get the nomination, then the Democrats are really broken as a party.
The AWFLs will vote for Newsom because he’s so dreamy.
Speaking of empty-headed….
My money’s on a Trump-voting farmer whose crops are rotting in the field because ICE rounded up his labor pool and shipped them back to Guatemala.
Look who’s been watching YouTube lately!
The left is the home of no shame, no inhibitions, no remorse.
It’s a short walk off the pier into violence from there.
So….I guess no more on-campus calling out the commies on their bullshit.
Keeping my fingers crossed here.
Job was done…silence dissent and opposition.
Like always, they never fear it will be them next against the wall.
To be fair, it never has been in this country. Left wing violence has been going on unabated since the anarchist bombings in the early 1900s, and most of the radicals responsible for carrying out bombing campaigns and assassinations, from the Puerto Rican nationalists who shot up congress to Squeaky Fromme, have been treated with kid gloves, paroled, or given professorships.
Well they’re virtuous Pat! They have only the best of intentions!
he didn’t have time to come to my least catholic catholic school
“Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.”. This is believed across the political spectrum. So it isn’t much of a surprise to hear about someone taking kinetic action to take out someone he’s been relentlessly told is a top Nazi in LiterallyHitler’s dictatorship.
That phrase has always pissed me off. Who decides what’s “evil” and who the “good men” are?
Me.
That Kirk guy was poisoning the minds of our children. Justifiable homicide. Just like those guys in that boat.
So the school board is on the menu now?
Okay, Meletus.
lol
I’m not a big follower of Kirk, but agree with this – he will talk to and debate anyone in an open forum. Something that is just about gone anywhere else.
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1965874716071305285
What are the odds that it was another Trantifa type that shot Kirk?
Old boomer.
They’re saying now it’s not the old guy…and also that Kirk has died.
It was a fat, balding white guy in jeans shorts. So maybe. Footage of the arrest.
https://x.com/justin_hicken/status/1965848958464569704
Nope…or at least what current reporting is saying.
Interesting. Is this the same guy, now with different pants on?
https://x.com/ChrisLoesch/status/1965865387972767805
Hey, that’s Governor Walz. ! Ooops
“They got Walz, thank god almighty!
Well fuck. Saw the video of Kirk being assassinated. Shit.
Plenty of combat medics saying same.
I will take this as the official word Charlie Kirk has died.
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1965878289198887177
Where the fuck do we go from here?
Just reading comments…I have no idea where people go from here. The extremes of both sides have been primed for some time
Have their been any assassinations of lefties? It feels like only 1 side is taking shots at people but maybe there have been some?
Some would argue that guy recently in Minnesota was a righty targeting lefties.
Drake:
JFK? MLK Jr.? Giffords?
I meant recently.
Is it even a conspiracy theory any more to say JFK and MLK were killed by the CIA.
Wasn’t Giffords a Republican?
Giffords wasn’t a political assassanation – for one thing, she’s still alive. For another, she was a bystander in a random mass shooting by an admitted nutcase.
Wasn’t Giffords a Republican?
No, Democrat. But her shooter was not politically motivated. A nut-ball with as many radical left wing ramblings as right wing as just cray-cray. Not one you can put in the political violence bin. Just as the current one can’t be put there, as likely as it is, until we get more info.
I’m probably a pessimist — but “Lots of angry chatter for a few days, then back to normal” is my prediction. I don’t think the Right is going to rise up and start to riot or gun people down instead of waiting to hopefully find out just who/what this whacko was.
Said whacko will likely get fucking votive candles like Saint Luigi from the Left, mind you… and the downward spiral will continue. But I don’t think it is breaking just yet.
I never met the man, just watched a few of his college session clips… seemed like a reasonably nice person willing to debate. God forbid we have anyone like that in politics these days.
Life sucks.
(Drake — I assume you meant recently since otherwise Malcom X, MLK, RFK, etc. leap to mind… but yeah, of the more recent decades — that isn’t really the right’s MO, regardless of how fucking dangerous the Biden DOJ insisted they are. But maybe I’m just blanking it out.)
I think this will be different.
Anyone who thinks the right will ever do anything besides flap its gums and jerk off to its AR-15 collections even as they’re being herded onto the cattle cars wasn’t paying any attention during the 3 years of COVID hysteria.
People are far too engrossed in their smartphones to pay attention to their own children let alone some “far right Nazi” (likely how he will be portrayed), why would this resonate with anyone outside of contrarians and iconoclasts like us?
The democrats certainly won’t care. Either kill your enemies or scare them into silence = electoral victory and power.
I think RJ is right. Voters have been drifting right for a while now, and this will just add to it.
Plus, it gives cover for Trumps push into working on inner city violence.
Democrats are busy high-fiving each other on Twitter if what I’m seeing is true.
And even more ammo in the “universities are communist indoctrination centers” magazine too.
This is really bad.
Pat: I understand, sympathize and even agree with you to an extent. Tides turn. This will be a high water mark, I think.
If I am wrong then I shall owe you many drinks next time we meet.
Possibly. Going kinetic over passive restrictions like Covid is hard for people to do. Solzhenitsyn noted that it’s already too late by the time it seems reasonable to react with force by “civilized” standards. For what it’s worth, very businesses or people complied with Covid restrictions in my very rural area. They are the ones with the AR collections.
On the other hand, we’re seeing more armed citizens stop mass shooters. You could also amp it up to someone like Rittenhouse or (less recently) roof top Koreans during the riots. I think we’ll see more of all of this. Both citizens going armed during their day to day, as well as armed groups preparing to defend against violent groups where law enforcement is failing their duty to stop it.
So not reactionary mass shootings from the right. But rather a general sense of the temperature rising, and there will be more armed citizens prepared to hit back.
I think the great sort will continue at an accelerated rate. Everything we’re seeing says the places leftists congregate are not fit for living life.
As far as reaction goes, my default expectation is a whole lot of whining and exactly no action.
However, could Trump wield the power of the state to go after some of the leftist institutions that gin up campus unrest? Could a young rightwing kid plan some retribution plot? None of that would seem outside the realm of possibility.
@trsh
One might hope that Trump brings every bit of pain possible to leftist universities. They are the er of the problem. They’ve taught people to kill over speech. It’s the only move they have left.
Leftist high schools and leftist elementary schools, too. They do the grooming. Throw in leftist school boards.
I’m not sure how you could work the assassanation of a right-leaning media personality into defunding and dismantling the Department of Education, but that would be a positive outcome.
CNN is now reporting that Kirk has died.
Charlie Kirk has died, Trump says
Well…shit. 🙁
Pollution and destruction now mandatory
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing.
The rule was a key part of efforts under former President Joe Biden to refocus the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, which oversees about 10% of land in the U.S. Adopted last year, it allowed public property to be leased for restoration in the same way that oil companies lease land for drilling.
Industry and agriculture groups were bitterly opposed to the Biden rule and lobbied Republicans to reverse it. States including North Dakota, where Burgum served as governor before joining Trump’s Cabinet, pursued a lawsuit hoping to block the rule.
I have no problem with competitive bidding for those leases, if that’s really what was going on. If somebody wants to pay market rates to NOT run cattle, that’s up to them.
@Ed: I would *love* to read your perspective on blacks in America. (Perhaps beyond?)
Simple truth: 70% of black kids are born into single-parent homes. *Must* be the primary ’cause’ of black youth’s behavior. That number’s beyond fucked and needs to be addressed. The black community is the one that needs to do it. “LEAVE US ALONE!” said Frederick Douglas to whites. He was right. I was the only white dude in both of my plasma centers, only dude on the floor at both of my plasma centers. I was also the only ‘dude.’ Rehab was more mixed, but the atmosphere the others created was distinct. (Nothing nasty happened there.)
Also a simple truth which Ed mentioned: *Everyone* is afraid of being called racist if they say any negative word, so they let everything ‘slide.’ It’s generationally snowballed into what the black rioters did in Cincinnati a few weeks ago. It also explains the (lack of?) response to it.
It’s a massive problem, and the Left continues to purposefully ignore what they themselves fostered in the black community. (They want it to get worse, so they can sweep in and ‘rectify’ the situation. (Hint: More $ and Power required. ‘Such a racist for not giving it to us!’)
Right back into that 70’s vibe.
Yup, a political assassination was one of the few missing components.
Now all that’s missing is someone shooting up Congress and setting off bombs.
Even alt media is ridiculous in their reporting amd this is even after confirmation he passed
“Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was reportedly shot”
Reportedly? Stop with this pussy footing around. Blood doesnt just spontaneously drain from the body and there is footage.
Im sick of dancing around shit. Say it. She was stabbed, he was shot…whatever, but this “allegedly” and “reportedly” just gives an out for people to disengage in it.
Trump should come out and say “remember when I called countries shitholes? We are them now”
To be generous assume they have no first hand knowledge. There are reports he was shot. Hence reportedly.
I’m ok with media qualifying things.
At least they aren’t using the “without evidence” disclaimer.
Disgusting. The joy from DU, Facebook, Twitter. All of it.
Sometimes i wish we had “true fascism” or “true communism” just for a week, to show some of those people what it could be.
But i doubt Charlie Kirk would approve.
Disgusting
I would happily support taking the GDP of the US for 5 years to buy another country, set it up however they want tech/manufacturing/whatnot — then ship them all fucking over and let them have their True Communism and see what happens. I just don’t want it here… and yeah, it increasingly feels like they’re planning the trenches for all us nonbelievers.
Like Suthen says, commies are the same no matter the time or place. They are indistinguishable from Bolsheviks.
I have flagged my first posts ever. Lots of people celebrating the shooting… but a few posting that there should be more.
1 right wing guy saying it is time to shoot back, and a couple dozen lefties saying that it is time to shoot more Nazis.
I get trolling, but this is more than trolling.
We had political assassinations when I was born in the 60s and not so much since. They tried with Reagan, and then a long gap until the baseball game shooter. This past year it is seemingly open season.
Something important has been broken in our society.
We’re just reverting to our human roots. Peace and stability are the exception, not the rule. Our pathetic species is bottomless in its capacity for depravity and we are the definition of irredeemable.
If I lived in the Three Body Problem world, I definitely would have responded to the message.
I’d like to think that people outside the political bubble are seeing the Left as they are – a bunch of mentally ill murderous ghouls. But I’m probably kidding myself.
pathetic species
This is correct. An incredible amount of energy is needed to outrun base impulses and tribal notions. Patience, pluralism, and first principles are plowed under by ignorant enthusiasm, of which there is no end.
I don’t know that you are fooling yourself. The loonies on the left are what pushed normies over the edge to elect Trump. Most people who voted for him don’t like him, per se, but they really do hate the leftist bullshit that has taken hold. I don’t think most people will take kindly to a guy who goes around to speak at colleges being murdered. They’re certainly not going to side with it.
I am now the owner of a red, 2017 Kia Sportage. (Well. On a four-year payment plan.) It has been an interesting week. My crush at work is always captivating, my totaled Chevy, an epileptic fog at work, and now! New wheels! And payday’s tomorrow!
Everything’s comin’ up Milhouse! (My last name starts with M. I almost doxxed myself.) I feel quite small in it. A small person myself, I *am* small in it. It’s kinda fun and its character will reveal itself and grow on me. By far the biggest car I’ve ever had. It has an automatic trunk. (I do not like them. They cause embarrassment at work when I try to close a trunk and can’t cuz the driver(!) controls it. (That bastard.))
Inherent chipperdom, do I live in.
Congrats! Fingers crossed you got a good one. You did the best you could to make that so.
Good for you! I think we could all use some good news right now.
Congrats on the Kia. I love my Hyundai. Great value for money and mine have been very reliable.
Oh, and no sarc on that.
(Having a loving, full family is a blessing. Kinda ties to my comment on Ed’s thought for a piece.)
Good choice! I have a Kia Sorento that has been good to me. It is my first foreign car and I am not diappointed. GM can go suck it. #neveragainGeneralMotors
I find it very satisfying that I, Weiguk Man, now owns a Korean car.
It has a scrunchy frog face that I kinda think is smushy-cute. The seats are folded down and its inner construction is being considered. (I hardly *ever* have passengers, and I don’t think anyone’s been in the back seat. Why not turn it into a comfy lounge? Just blankets and cushions, nothing fancy, unless my midget butler finally comes in the mail. (He’ll probably get here before my damn phone.)
“Hamill said he was proven wrong in believing there were more decent and honest Americans than there were “others” after Trump’s second win, adding he now feels “in the minority” in his own country.”
I hear South Sudan is lovely this time of year.
NB: you were the least memorable and useful piece of the franchise (except for maybe Jedi Mary Sue). They could have replaced you with almost anyone and Ford, Fisher and Guiness would have carried the movie.
Never listen to the Joker.
Hammil’s an idiot and a mediocre actor at best. If he hadn’t fallen ass backwards into that role he’d be just another sad old leftist douchebag tweeting into the ether.
The snuff video of Charlie Kirk is exactly what they wanted to happen to Trump last year.
They certainly tried. The country’s going to an ugly and dangerous place, no doubt.
Where is our promised destruction and tragedy?
But this year has been quieter than expected when it comes to tropical systems in the Atlantic, making some wonder: Where are all the hurricanes?
Looking at the Atlantic Ocean Basin, most tropical waves that eventually strengthen into tropical systems come off of the coast of Africa and travel across the warm ocean waters. But this year, Saharan dust has continued to move over the open waters, preventing the thunderstorm development that is needed to form a tropical cyclone.
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The planet is also in a cycle of what is known as “ENSO Neutral,” which means that neither El Nino nor La Nina are present. During El Nino, the winds near the equator weaken which allows warmer water to be pushed eastward. La Nina has the opposite effect of El Nino. During La Nina events, winds around the equator are stronger than usual, bringing colder water eastward.
When La Nina is present, fewer Eastern Pacific hurricanes occur and more Atlantic hurricanes form, and vice versa for El Nino periods. Since neither is currently present, we do not have a typical hurricane season.
They have all those scary global warming stories teed up, just going to waste.
Next from CBS News: “There have been fewer hurricanes. Why that’s bad and why climate change is to blame.”
Not to worry, they’ll think of something:
Bitch please.
I am consuming more sugary drinks the past month, mostly as I scale back alcoholic drinks. Sugary drinks will go soon too. Did they bother to note that sugary drinks went up as alcohol consumption went down? Because that is a thing.
Something important has been broken in our society.
Cancelling that “E PLURIBUS UNUM” thing might not have been a very good idea, in retrospect.
We should bring back the melting pot, if it’s not too late.
Maybe our side needs to cut down some of the “woodchipper” and “helicopter ride” rhetoric? Sure, it is mostly bloviating chest pounding on both sides but somebody seems to have taken
“punch a Nazi” to heart.
Would it really matter? Charlie Kirk was as mild mannered and moderate a guy there ever was. He certainly never said any of that stuff. He just went out in public and politely debated people.
Or perhaps some need to follow through on the rhetoric.
It’s not rightwing rhetoric that has the nation at the boiling point. That said, unless we’re ready to kill a hell of a lot of people violence will not fix what is wrong.
The left starts knocking off their enemies and we need to be careful with our (pretty mild) rhetoric? I get the idea and even sympathize somewhat but no.
I’m with you, SW.
He campaigned for Trump which means… well, you can guess what.
Stop the joking.
Buy JP8
XY texted me that Charlie had been shot. I don’t know how he knew I’d know who he was, but he says that’s all anybody is talking about on his campus (Missouri State University). He didn’t say WHAT they were saying.
But this is hitting me hard, and I only paid surface attentuon to him.
I think RJ is right. This is different.
Kirk was close to a lot of right-wing media people, and even left wing because he was always up for honest debate. He was close to politicians and spoke at the inauguration. Even people who don’t follow politics knew him, like my youngest who loved his TikTok videos.
I’ve followed him for years. I’m sick about it.
My wife and I don’t talk much politics. She’s Clinton Democrat who got married and had a child and quickly became a suburban Republican Mom.
She was in tears when I came through the door this evening. I didn’t even know if she knew who he was, but the minute I saw the tears I knew why she was crying.
Getting me pretty hard too, and for a few reasons.
1. They wanted him dead for having the temerity to support free speech and openly debate the dragon inside of the dragon’s lair. He is dead because he was effective at it.
2. This is a sign that civility is but a frayed strand away from breaking. Only bad things will come from this.
3. I have a son (and we all have a fellow Glib) at a university, and neither is he afraid of speaking his mind, nor in he ineffective.
I am sensing that that is the point.
A certain type thrives on violence and chaos.
At my least catholic catholic Uni, the response has been, mixed per se. The people I’m around are all against it and pissed about it. But there is definitely a big crowd here that is also putting out the rhetoric of “YAYA, but boooo gun violence”
SCIENCE
Abstract
Extreme event attribution assesses how climate change affected climate extremes, but typically focuses on single events1,2,3,4. Furthermore, these attributions rarely quantify the extent to which anthropogenic actors have contributed to these events5,6. Here we show that climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed. This work relies on the expansion of a well-established event-based framework1. Owing to global warming since 1850–1900, the median of the heatwaves during 2000–2009 became about 20 times more likely, and about 200 times more likely during 2010–2019. Overall, one-quarter of these events were virtually impossible without climate change. The emissions of the carbon majors contribute to half the increase in heatwave intensity since 1850–1900. Depending on the carbon major, their individual contribution is high enough to enable the occurrence of 16–53 heatwaves that would have been virtually impossible in a preindustrial climate. We, therefore, establish that the influence of climate change on heatwaves has increased, and that all carbon majors, even the smaller ones, contributed substantially to the occurrence of heatwaves. Our results contribute to filling the evidentiary gap to establish accountability of historical climate extremes7,8.
According to our model, the witches have been identified.
There seems to be a lot less unity and understanding in this country since a certain Unifier-in-Chief got elected in 2008.
I’ve pointed that out to a liberal friend and get crickets.
Weaponizing political and cultural differences in an overt manner never works out well and that’s the left’s MO. Obama was just more of the same.
Don’t misunderestimate the preceding great unifier.
The more someone — anyone — preaches unity, the more I think they only want that under their boot heel.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/canadian-man-drives-barbie-jeep-in-traffic-gets-dui
Hey buddy, stop doing that.
Whew! It’s not Florida. Derpy is safe.
Maybe our side needs to cut down some of the “woodchipper” and “helicopter ride” rhetoric?
Fine by me. What we need is a lot less wedge-issue guerilla warfare and more honest recognition of the hole we’re in.
*yells “hi-yo Silver” and rides off into the distance on pony*
Failing to thread properly is guerilla warfare.
This week’s murders have me thinking I need to get more serious with my concealed carrying. Sometimes I carry a .380 I can’t shoot for crap in a pocket holster. I often just leave it in the car.
I need a small 9mm I can shoot well and conceal comfortably. I might even try appendix carry even though the thought of a loaded gun pointed at my junk does not appeal to me.
I’ve carried exactly 1 time in my life. I was moving, every possession I had on this earth was in that moving truck, and I was in a very seedy part of town waiting.
But I’m with you. I’ve never felt the need to carry. This has certainly moved the needle on that.
Happy with my Sig P365, though not necessarily with my proficiency. I usually carry at 4 o’clock when I do, rarely will appendix carry if the shirt I’m wearing is less concealing than I’d like. Not to bring up the perennial ‘debate’, but when I do, I don’t worry about my junk because it’s MADE OF STEEL! No, actually I mean because I don’t carry with a round chambered. I think risk of forgetting to rack in a stressful situation that will most likely never manifest is less than handling a ‘hot’ weapon day to day.
Don’t you live close to Greenville? You do you but it’s a pretty safe city, almost as safe as Charlotte.
I ❤️ my Kimber micro 9.
My P365 shoots well enough for me to both carry it and take it to matches. Trigger control is more important on it than my dedicated sport guns, but what woukd you expect?
If you want to carry appendix, consider one if the excellent DA/SA pistols out there.
Or a Glock with an LTT Striker Control Device. It gives you the same functionality for reholstering, as does an exposed hammer.
My wife and I carry this version of the Sig p938. We love it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_Sauer_P938#/media/File:SIG_Sauer_P938.jpg
Failing to thread properly is guerilla warfare.
Sniping from cover.
If we’re rewinding to the ’60s, what are the likely bombing targets? Will the bombers bother to try to minimize injury and stick to tactical property destruction or will they go full OKC?
Who will the bombers be?
*I’m guessing that federal building in Portland which has been under siege for years is definitely a priority target.
If we’re moving towards escalation, I expect an IED or bombing at an ICE facility in the next week or so.
I think modern Americans are, in general, too dumb and incompetent to build functioning bombs.
Antifa has likely been training for years on this shit. They will have competent soldiers aplenty.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/police-remote-detonator-wired-to-one-of-over-a-dozen-suspected-pipe-bombs-found-in/article_7e68aca2-c05e-41cd-af57-7260492d5b7c.html
Maybe in FL, but not in PA…
Antifa and competency go together like oil and water. I mean, they can kind of fuck things up in large enough numbers, but that’s about it.
Yeah, Antifa has been training for some form of war for at least the last 5 years. Other, no-named leftist entities for much longer. At some point they will get what they want, though I don’t know that they actually want what will come. Those Antifa fucks in Portland attacking the ICE Facility every night are up against federal cops, with a very strict set of ROE, and who are using paint guns and tear gas. If the feds were truly fascist as “protestors” routinely claim, they would all be mowed down in a minute or 2.
The only “comfort” to be had is that the right is filled to the brim with those who have fought in actual war. Many pretty extensively these last couple of decades. Leftists have been cosplaying with garbage can lids as shields and shoulder pads as armor.
I personally know two former badged SF operators who train Antifa shock troops full-time. Do not underestimate these people.
I definitely don’t.
I also don’t believe there are enough of those types to have an effect in the long run.
WTF ES?!
Enemies foreign and domestic, I was shocked at the number of oath breakers on active duty.
Weaponizing political and cultural differences in an overt manner never works out well and that’s the left’s MO. Obama was just more of the same.
There is a reason “balkanization” is a pejorative.
Ironically failing to understand why the Balkans are the way they are. Fucking humans.
I 1/2 expected TOS to brush Kirk’s murder off.
But Fruit Sushi brought it. Didn’t mince words. It was murder. Assassination even. And all because the left couldn’t beat him in their own house using the rhetorical techniques that used to be taught by universities before they became leftist indoctrination centers.
Credit where credit is due.
The Guardian is on the case
Anyone who wants to understand the rise of Donald Trump among young voters has to understand Charlie Kirk, dubbed a “youth whisperer” of the right, who was shot on Wednesday at an event at Utah Valley University and died afterwards.
Kirk was only 31 and had never held elected office but, as a natural showman with a flair for patriotism, populism and Christian nationalism, was rich in the political currency of the era.
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An important gravitational tug on the modern Republican party, his career had also been marked by the promotion of misinformation, divisive rhetoric and conspiracy theories, including 2020 election-fraud claims and falsehoods around the Covid pandemic and the vaccine.
He was begging for it.
Surely they provided examples of his Christian nationalism, misinformation, divisive rhetoric and conspiracy theories.
Don’t hold your breath.
We told you and you have no need for evidence, just for what we say.
Maybe they did but I’m not clicking on a link to the fucking Guardian to find out.
Utah is anti Christian ground zero in the U.S.
Their Marxism is baked into their false religion.
Yeah, it’s a real he sorta had it coming article but expecting different from The Guardian is a fool’s errand.
I noticed the misinformation he is responsible for never gets actually named.
It never is.
I’m sure the university will be offering safe spaces and on-demand counseling for students to deal with the tragic death of someone on campus….
JFC. I thought Audi was supposed to be the non poser German luxury brand.
TW Vertical video and Doug DeMuro.
https://youtube.com/shorts/erQnohGvKzA?si=Gooih1mTcbUym36F
Speaking of lost phones: Phone claim never went through. So we had to file a *real* one today. I now have a tracking number for its overnight delivery. This deal cost me $99, and “overnight” turned into four days. Is there a way to get compensation for their fuck-up? Despite them not having a record of us submitting a claim, which we did in person?
Reparations seem all the rage, and I actually deserve some for this. I fucking needed that thing for work and again will tomorrow.
ATT? That’s who made a dog’s dinner of my phone switchover.
Yeah, it’s a real he sorta had it coming article but expecting different from The Guardian is a fool’s errand.
I know zip about Kirk or his accomplishments, but the tone of that article is dripping with condescension and the implication of “undeserved success”. All those things just happened to him.
You didn’t build that.
It is a trial to the faithful when they see the wicked prosper.
I am waiting to hear from Vox and Salon.
The Voxplainer will be a treat.
The Voxplainer will be a treat.
This is the fault of the so-called free speech absolutists! Especially that rat bastard Elon.
So much of a free speech absolutist his platform still bans people without cause.
Going to try to get some sleep and not dwell too much on this — but:
1) FBI says they have the assassin. Hopefully they got it right this time unlike whomever the old guy was earlier.
2) Oh THAT’S fucking helpful, House Jackasses. Should “No” to a moment of respect for a fucking human just because you disagree (well, actually just because you’re loathsome soulless commie fucks… but let’s say it is just because you disagree) Yeah — it definitely looks like they really really want a civil war. I guess Jan 6 gave them the idea it will be nice, incompetent — and give them the perfect excuse to crush all opposition forever. Somehow… I don’t think that would be the case if it ever actually boils over.
Have a good night all. Hug your loved ones if you have them and be glad you’re with them if you can.
The only answer is to go Galt
Afraid you are right.
Ragnar.
I have to admit I’m a bit surprised at just how big of a deal people are making out of the Charlie Kirk murder/assassination in general. It’s all I see anywhere I go.
I mean, some nutjob shot up a baseball game between congress critters and people basically yawned. Until South Park, I barely knew who Charlie Kirk was though I don’t pay much attention to milquetoast MAGA types in general at this stage.
I get it being A story. But I don’t quite getting it capturing the zeitgeist quite the way it has.
Social media and a very graphic vid go a long way.
He’s seen as reason one why young men, particularly college aged men, have turned away (hard) from Democrats. He was target 1 because he went into their turf, peacefully, and beat all the smart people at their own game. He rendered their words powerless to those who they’d rather see indoctrinated into leftist simps.
I don’t know, still barely on my radar. I think you’re giving him far too much credit. Various people have gone into the den of college campuses and made the left look stupid. It’s pretty easy these days if you’re actually allowed to speak.
I have nothing against him. I’m not speaking ill of him, but you are lionizing his accomplishments post-death to me. Or maybe I’ve finally become an out of touch old man.
You’ve become an out of touch old man.
He was a titan in the current political landscape.
In addition so social media, I think it’s the larger ‘story’ it tells. The reaction is not about one person in particular, but rather that someone who was, near as I can tell from my limited exposure, was always polite and willing to listen and talk to anyone. Admittedly, a bit of showman ship doing it on a college campus where many had been intellectually disarmed by the institution, but nevertheless, generally an honest polite broker. OK some nutjob guns him down (or maybe not really a nut job, rather a true believer if there’s a difference. We’ll see), but then you have the reaction from elements of the left and the media and congress. That brings in stark reveal, in ways that political rhetoric and even political action do not, the fundamental fracture and potential dissociation of our society. “They” are willing to go that far and excuse in some limited sense this sort of act. How much further will it go? Is this a manifestation of a fundamental, unsolvable fracture of our society and country? That’s the story that’s being told subconsciously and the story that people are viscerally reacting to.
I only watched a few of his videos. I found it a bit tiresome….he was arguing with campus commie freshman types who just had mush in their heads. He just swatted their talking points down. They thought they were saying profound things…of course they did…but it was all stale commie talking points that have been debunked a thousand times for 100 years. Ok, whatever.
I knew he was a big deal to a lot of people but I was only vaguely aware of that. This shooting is different. It feels like the mask is off and they arent quietly hoping for a war…this is outright declaration. The congressional Dems make that doubly clear.
I can see why, as someone said earlier…this is akin to ‘the shot heard round the world’.
I hope this analysis is wrong.
“Or maybe I’ve finally become an out of touch old man.”
Yeah, its a bit of that. Welcome to the club. What we do have is wisdom and the broader view that human behavior never changes. We have seen all of this before.
This is going to change things.
He was a hero to young college aged men yearning for a voice to represent them, and be an example of how to speak up for what you believe. Yes, the commie talking points have been shot down a million times, but NOT for college students where it’s indoctrination every day, all day. They desperately needed to hear him speak. That’s why he’s dead.
Older folk don’t really know as much about him because their marketing worked exceptionally well. We were not his target. His target was college students who desperately needed a voice to speak up for them. He was that voice. We didn’t need his voice.
He was a guy who made his entire career by being a calm reasonable debater who went into leftist strongholds and remained civil. And while he was dying in the hospital after being shot mid debate the online left indulged their bile cheering his death on. Add to that the fact that this all happened while the Charlotte vileness was already creating serious rage on the right, and I’m surprised you’re surprised. I wasn’t really a fan of his, but I think the worst thing he ever did was maybe be a bit smug when confronted with idiocy, and it’s very clear that the people cheering his death would cheer mine, or yours. On that note I think I am getting off the web, maybe for a day or two. I don’t really need help getting my hate on and the outrage porn is getting to be too much.
Nice summary.
I have realized something. Harris has got to be pissed about this happening right after she lost LAPD and SS protection.
She’s on the left. She is completely safe.
Is she?
We live in a world where political assassination is on the table.
Exactly MW and they need to give it back now.
Emhoff is back at work making millions. They can afford private security.
Yes.
So why just her? Why not yank the SS from Obama, both Clintons, and the Bidens?
Ex presidents get lifetime
VP six months. Biden extended by EO and Trump undid by EO.
Looks like they caught the actual shooter:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shots-reportedly-fired-charlie-kirk-event-utah-valley-university
Yes. Patel confirmed on X.
You can add Shapiro. Not sure if that one was crazy left or crazy right.
What about the guy from United Health? That seemed like a political assassination.
It absolutely was.
Holy fuck!
“‘Star Wars’ star Mark Hamill says he’s ashamed that America voted for Trump twice”
Wait till he finds out we did it three times!
Insert “NOOOOOOO!!!!!” meme.
Thanks, I needed a smile on this shitty day.